These twelve essays analyze the complex pleasures and problems of engaging with James Joyce for subsequent writers, discussing Joyce’s textual, stylistic, formal, generic, and biographical influence on an intriguing selection of Irish, British, American, and postcolonial writers from the 1940s to the twenty-first century.
Table des matières
Preface; Derek Attridge 1. Introduction; Martha C. Carpentier 2. Elizabeth Foley O’Connor; ‘Kate O’Brien, James Joyce, and the ‘Lonely Genius » 3. Thomas O’Grady; ‘Thanks Be To Joyce: Brendan Behan à Paris’ 4. Steven Morrison; ‘Houses of Decay: Joyce, History, and J.G. Farrell’s Troubles’ 5. Ellen Mc Williams; ‘Adaptations of Joyce in the Fiction of Patrick Mc Cabe’ 6. Ruth Hoberman; ‘Joyce’s Nightmare of History in George Orwell’s The Clergyman’s Daughter’ 7. Margaret Hiley; »Bizarre or dream like’: J.R.R. Tolkien on Finnegans Wake’ 8. Jim Clarke; ‘The Baroque Weaving Machine: Contrasting Counterpoint in James Joyce and Anthony Burgess’ 9. David Vichnar; ‘Wars Waged With/Against Joyce: James Joyce and Post-1984 British Fiction’ 10. Martha C. Carpentier; ‘Frank Mc Court’s Angela’s Ashes and the Joycean Bildungsroman’ 11. Nathan Oates; »A Stone in Place of the Heart’: The Influence of James Joyce on the Late Style of Raymond Carver’ 12. Maria Mc Garrity; ‘Imagining the ‘wettest indies’: The Transatlantic Network of James Joyce and Derek Walcott’ 13. Leila Baradaran Jamili and Bahman Zarrinjooee; ‘An Artistic Metempsychosis: James Joyce’s and Sadeq Hedayat’s Nonlinear and Chaotic Imagination’ Index
A propos de l’auteur
Derek Attridge, University of York, UK Jim Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ruth Hoberman, Eastern Illinois University, USA Margaret Hiley, Independent Scholar, UK Maria Mc Garrity, Long Island University, New York, USA Ellen Mc Williams, University of Exeter, UK Steven Morrison, Independent Scholar, UK Nathan Oates, Seton Hall University, USA Elizabeth Foley O’Connor, Washington College in Chestertown, USA Thomas O’Grady, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA David Vichnar, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Leila Baradaran Jamili, Islamic Azad University, Iran Bahman Zarrinjooee, Islamic Azad University, Iran